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Avijit Roy

Supplier From India
Mar-27-21
Supplier : Banana fibre sap, compost

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*Appearance of banana fiber is similar to that of bamboo fiber and ramie fiber, but its fineness and spinnability is better than the two

*The chemical composition of banana fiber is cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin.
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*It has smaller elongation

* It has somewhat shiny appearance depending upon the extraction & spinning process.
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* It has strong moisture absorption quality. It absorbs as well as releases moisture very fast

* It is bio- degradable and eco-friendly fiber

*Its average fineness is 2400Nm

*It can be spun through almost all the methods of spinning including ring spinning, open-end spinning, bast fiber spinning, and semi-worsted spinning among others
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Like in most slum areas, a majority of the women take both the role of the bread earner and house head. There are many reasons behind it such as having been widowed, divorced or even migrated from rural areas in search of greener pastures in Nairobi just to find themselves in the slum life. Traditionally unlike men, women do not have property right or inherit from their place of origin thus rural land. Therefore their best alternative is to adapt to urban slum life where basic social amenities are not only lacking but inadequate to serve the usually high population of maginalized citizens. The problems that face the slum community and their rural counterpart is poverty and unemployment. Many of the slum dwellers rely on unreliable source of income such as temporary construction work while their women combine their respective source of income with child rearing among other household chores.

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